Press Release: 69% of workers helped by EU globalisation fund found another job

10,000 workers were helped by the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) last year and of these, more than two-thirds found a new job, according to a report adopted by the European Commission on 31 July, 2009. The second annual report on the EGF shows an increasing uptake of the funds by EU countries for measures to support workers dismissed as a result of globalisation. It also reports on the outcome of the first EGF contributions in terms of helping the redundant workers into new jobs.